Preference Quotes - Page 16

• Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make an exception to a recognized duty out of self-preference. The universalizability test is supposed help the agent to see, in a particular case of moral judgment, that self-preference is not a satisfactory reason for exempting yourself from a duty you recognize. Kant thinks, as a matter of human nature, that this situation arises often enough and that we need a canon of judgment to guard against it.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Self, Special

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.

  Christopher Camuto

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Elephants, Care, Want

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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• The thing is you can be a great designer but you can also be lazy or not understand the other person's preferences or be more concerned about being a star than being good at what you do.

  Fred Foster

  Stars, Lazy, Designer

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.

  Charlize Theron

  Sex, Talking, Ideas

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Tom's [Brady] personal preferences on his footballs are something he can take about in much better detail and information than I could possibly provide.

  Bill Belichick

  Football, Details, Information

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

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• I think we all know that quarterbacks, kickers, specialists have certain preferences on footballs. They know a lot more about it than I do. They're a lot more sensitive to it than I am.

  Bill Belichick

  Football, Thinking, Kickers

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

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• As any man, I, of course, have certain preferences. Being a Scot by birth, I'm inclined to favor those with a well-scrubbed look and a hint of color in their cheeks-put there by an early walk in the chill air rather than by rouge. The smell of soap on a woman's skin or the hint of shampoo in her hair is perfume enough for me . . . Humor is important. The most beautiful woman in the world is a bore without that.

  David Niven

  Beautiful, Men, Color

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• My preference would be to remain in the Senate, ... But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of those (Cabinet) capacities. It's not the same as vice president.

  John McCain

  President, Vices, Would Be

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• That's the rational premise behind my spending hours of billable time adjusting my Facebook preferences. The real reason, of course, for all this stuff, is that it provides a way to blow off work you should be doing, while creating the illusion that you are achieving something.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Real, Blow, Creating

  "Design Guru Jeff Zeldman On Facebook, Twitter, Onanism" by Dan Frommer, www.businessinsider.com. September 18, 2007.

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• My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.

  Dav Pilkey

  Reading, Nonfiction, Boards

  "Dav Pilkey on 'Dog Man,' Mind-Blowing Graphic Novels, and More". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 20, 2016.

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• Do we really want to base our 21st-century policy on what the colonialist preferred at a certain time in history, not at all based on health or what the preferences of different cultures might be? That's just ridiculous.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Different, Culture, Want

  Source: sojo.net

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• A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes.

  Michael Hersch

  Thinking, Understanding, Guides

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• My preference is that we beat him [Donald Trump] outright in the primary process. And I believe that's exactly what's going to happen here in the next few weeks, especially as we move to winner-take-all states. The terrain begins to change.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, Moving, Next

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• All the athletes are individuals. This isn't a team sport. We all have our own styles, our own clothing preferences and our own way of doing things. That's the way I do things and I'm proud of it.

  Nick Goepper

  Sports, Team, Athlete

  "A conversation with Olympic freestyle skier Nick Goepper". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Ambition, Yield, Favors

  Charles Lindbergh (1913). “Banking and Currency and the Money Trust”, p.99, Lulu.com

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• Modern science agrees that the universe consists of vibrations, but sound is more than vibration. Distinct from white noise, sound is vibrations in harmonic proportions, and from the billions of vibrations that are possible, the universe shows a startling, overwhelming preference for the few thousand that make harmonic sense.This is because the One, from which all things issue, is beautiful.

  Huston Smith

  Beautiful, White, Issues

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• All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.

  George Mason

  Christian, Exercise, Men

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• When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything!

  Oswald Chambers

  Falling In Love, Heart, Men

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• If we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every day of my life that I walk out of my house I am a combination of race, gender, class, sexual preference and religion or what have you, what gets foregrounded?

  Bell Hooks

  Moving, Thinking, Race

  Source: nefac.net

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• She is not being preferenced - she's not on our preference card because Pauline Hanson's view of Australia is basically a very - it's a very old view.

  George Brandis

  Views, Australia, Cards

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must be maximizing, and that the principle should be applied to individual acts. Indeed, this version is often called "classical utilitarianism" and attributed to Bentham and sometimes even to Mill. Rather than a "classical" view it is a recent construction foisted on to the tradition.

  Dale Jamieson

  Views, Principles, Maximizing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• You know, it's so funny that the internet's become a series of traps where you do sort of innocent things like give your name or address or indicate a preference, I like this thing, and then therefore you open yourself up to a deluge of advertising based on those stated preferences.

  Tim Wu

  Names, Giving, Addresses

  "How Free Web Content Traps People In An Abyss Of Ads And Clickbait". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wjsu.org. October 17, 2016.

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• I believe that whatever your religious preference, there has to be a commitment to family because everything really does start there.

  Nia Long

  Religious, Believe, Commitment

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I have a friend who actually told me that she'd rather be dead than be fat. This is a woman who, if I order a sandwich at lunch, she'll order a salad. If I order a salad, she'll order half a cantaloupe. If I order half a cantaloupe, she'll order a cup of coffee. This bizarre contest continues until she's down to sucking on a mint-flavored toothpick. At this rate, her preference for dying over being fat could be a reality sooner than she thinks.

  Joy Behar

  Coffee, Thinking, Reality

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